Citrix Solutions for Primary and Secondary Education

1 Primary and Secondary application serversoftware and services enhancethe learning experience forstudents, educators and thelearning community byproviding a comprehensiveCORE learning communities Optimizing the learning environment Reaching equity goals Ensuring enterprise-level performance Management for the school challenges facing schools today aredaunting. In addition to providinginstruction to growing studentpopulations, educators facemounting pressure to providemore individualized school districts experienceorganizational and operationalcomplexity similar to thatfound in major what if schools and schooldistricts had a simple, efficient,cost-effective way to meet thesechallenges?

2 Consider how productiveeducators could be and how muchmore effectively students could learn if they could tap resources that haveboosted productivity at 80 percent ofFortune 500 companies. Think howefficient administrators could be ifschools could centralize scheduling,attendance, email, state and federalreporting and individual educationplans. How smoothly schools wouldrun if they could simplify technologymanagement. And how far budgetswould stretch if schools could extendthe useful life of their hardware andsoftware investments. Citrix application server software can provideanswers to these and other for technology won t help schoolsunless staff and teachers have equalaccess to it.

3 With Citrix Solutions ,teachers on every corner of a campuscan have immediate access to the samesoftware. Communication is improvedbetween departments. New opportunitiesfor collaboration are created. In-servicestaff development can be streamlined,maximizing the capabilities of existingstaff and increasing productivitythroughout the focus on the efficiency of schools isimportant, but educators must alsocreate new opportunities for learningboth inside and outside the they must keep pace with newteaching methods. Citrix applicationserver software promises to extendeducation beyond the confines of theclassroom to the rest of the students, faculty and staff canaccess a range of interactive softwareprograms, word processing, graphicsprograms and email from of the computing devicethey re using.

4 Whether they re workingin the computer lab, the classroom,the library or at Education enterprisetoefficientlyrun your entire school Citrix solutiongivesstudents and educators high-performance access from any deviceto data and applications on a centralserver. Because the solution issoftware - based, a school or districtcan provide full connectivity topowerful applications whileleveraging its current infrastructure including servers, wiring anddesktop or portable new skills thatenable lifelong Citrix approach to computingcreates opportunities for improving theentire Education system including thelearning process itself.

5 Now it s easierthan ever to extend the learningenvironment outside of the school 24 hours a day so that learningbecomes independent of time and are empowered to take moreresponsibility for their own they re encouraged to develop skillsthat will foster lifelong teachers for individual educators strive to increase levels of individualized instruction, they neednew technologies to track students work, assure that the work is evaluatedeffectively and increase communicationand collaboration throughout thelearning application server software offersa host of features that make thesepractices possible.

6 Teachers can monitorthe progress of students working oncomputers at their own pace and in theirown style whether they re in the sameclassroom or across town. They canaccess powerful programs for designingindividualized lesson plans. And they canshare information with colleagues moreeasily than ever before. Improve continuity from school to curricula create a greaterneed for effectively mapping students progress and tracking their learningacross many years and many application server software isuniquely suited to this task. Educatorscan use the Internet to reach records andapplications from anywhere, using anydevice from desktop to laptop towireless using any computing platform,whether Windows , UNIX , Linux orMac OS.

7 Optimizelearning access across the digital gap between those who havetechnology and those who don t is veryreal. Inequities exist amonghomes, schools and evenclassrooms. A Citrix solution,however, can provideconsistent access and aconsistent user experience toeveryone. Now all studentsand educators in a school ordistrict can access the sameapplications and information anywhere, using the devicesthey prefer or can can get more usefrom their existing equipment. Thedigital divide is narrowed. Involve parents, teachersand communication throughout aschool system leads to more effectiveoperations and greater communityinvolvement.

8 Using the Citrix computingmodel, communication amongteachers including discussions, peersupport and collaboration is enhanced,because all teachers have access to thesame applications and data. Newopportunities for distance learning arecreated. Teachers can send reports totheir students homes and receiveresponses directly from parents. Andparents can access their child s homeworkassignments, monitor grades or check on progress reports from and teachers can improvetheirinteractions, and everyone can becomemore involved in the Education the Internet offers students a previouslyunimaginable perspective on the Citrix application server software canmake this immense resource a financiallyviable learning tool in every Web-based learning environment forschools not only can bring the worldinto the schools.

9 But it can extend theschool beyond its walls to the same networks created for in-schoolcomputing can connect the school to cityhall, public libraries, teen centers andcommunity centers. Not only can studentslearn outside of the classroom, but theentire community has access to school-based goalsbyoffering moreaccessto for the entiretechnology level of technical supportavailable at a school can have adirect effect on the quality ofeducation a child receives. Bothteaching and learning are impaired if educators cannot fully utilize theirtechnology. Citrix application serversoftware provides a solution that is centrally managed, so the wholeorganization can move to a higherlevel of computing withoutoverwhelming the teaching oradministrative staff.

10 What s more, the entire computernetwork now can maintain anunparalleled level of performanceand uptime. Central managementensures that mission-criticalapplications are continually available,reliable, predictable and secure. Andnew products and services can berapidly deployed while compatibilityissues are minimized. In fact, everystage of the technology lifecycle acquisition, deployment, managementand upgrade is made Citrix solution also offers the potential for districtwidestandardization. Because it enablesuse of a full range of computingdevices including PCs, Macintosh computers, thin clients, handhelddevices and notebook computers, Citrix application server softwarecan give everyone in the schooldistrict access to the same resourcesand computing security forrecords and schools adopt more businesslikepractices, student, government andfinancial records will becomeincreasingly centralized creating a critical need to maintain securitywhile providing ready access foreducators within the school andthroughout the district.